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CRUZ: SCOTUS ‘ELITES’ THINK ‘FLYOVER COUNTRY’ VIEWS SHOULDN’T BE RESPECTED
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| 29 Jun 2015
| IAN HANCHETT
Posted on 07/01/2015 2:36:18 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
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CRUZ or LOSE!
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posted on
07/01/2015 2:36:46 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
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posted on
07/01/2015 2:40:22 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: SoConPubbie
Fly over country is also the red portion of the political map. It is not just that non-urban America is ignored, we are vilified by the left as enemies of their utopian aspirations.
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posted on
07/01/2015 2:48:02 PM PDT
by
DaveyB
(Live free or die!)
To: trisham
God bless Ted Cruz. Now if he just had Trump gonads and hit the hell our of the rest of King Obama and his communists empire we would have our man.
To: SoConPubbie
"We are seeing a great awakening.
A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us -
a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of
the unlimited potential of free men and free women." Ted Cruz
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posted on
07/01/2015 2:52:10 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: SoConPubbie
Very few in the media have even the slightest clue about real flyover country.
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posted on
07/01/2015 2:53:54 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: SoConPubbie
“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
Thomas Jefferson
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posted on
07/01/2015 2:55:11 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: Logical me
You mean...the lack of gonads he had to stand on the Senate floor for hours for a filibuster...instead of paying lip service to an issue?
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posted on
07/01/2015 2:55:25 PM PDT
by
TNMOUTH
To: DaveyB
I get a little tired of people who purport to be speaking up for us outside the urban centers to use the term “flyover country” that was made up to diminish us.
How about “Heartland of America” instead, Ted?
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posted on
07/01/2015 2:55:57 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I think Jefferson and I would have gotten along just fine.
Kind of poetic that live in a "town" named after John Norvell. Norvell wrote to ask Jefferson's opinions on entering politics and starting a newspaper.
From Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 11 June 1807
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted so as to be most useful, I should answer by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only. yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. it is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
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posted on
07/01/2015 3:04:40 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: SoConPubbie
In 2012, didn’t SCOTUS shoot down the Defense of Marriage Act because it was a state’s rights issue?
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posted on
07/01/2015 3:07:06 PM PDT
by
joshua c
(Please dont feed the liberals)
To: SoConPubbie
I have to say that Cruz has gonads of brass, first allowing himself to be interrogated by Couric and then by the Kommissars of Thought of the Today show.
And he handles himself admirably, in those lions dens, I must say.
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posted on
07/01/2015 3:08:00 PM PDT
by
bkopto
(Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
To: cripplecreek
Very few in the media have even the slightest clue about real flyover country.Most of them have seen it from just 5 miles away (5 miles up).
These are people who thrive in a human constructed 'reality'. I don't begrudge them that, but to look down on those who thrive in an environment with constraints imposed by nature more than man because we do not thrive in their environment (or choose to thrive in this one) is to underestimate the abilities of those who live here.
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posted on
07/01/2015 3:29:14 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: joshua c
In 2012, didnt SCOTUS shoot down the Defense of Marriage Act because it was a states rights issue? Indeed, they did.
And it was the same five justices who voted to make single sex marriage "the law of the land". Moreover, the decision in both cases was written by the same justice -- Anthony Kennedy.
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posted on
07/01/2015 3:33:39 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: Smokin' Joe
The urbanites just can imagine how anyone can survive without the “conveniences” of the city. Worse yet, they can’t even imagine that someone would want to. If we don’t want the same as they do its because there is something wrong with us.
I’ve never been to a Starbucks or Tim Hortons. In my 50 years I’ve been on a bus once and a train once and have never been on a plane. I’ve never lived with city water, a municipal trash service or electricity provider. Those urban services are tax creators that I can’t control.
Out here, I can control my costs through choices and conservation on my own. I can choose from a half dozen different trash pick up services that all have a half dozen different service packages. I don’t have a water meter and I don’t have a base rate to pay for water. I can use as much or as little water as I choose because I pay for the electricuty to pump it.
I do live in a “food desert” but that’s fine too. I grow or buy 75% of my vegetables at the farm down the road. I make a trip to the outskirts of town about once a month and buy meat, sugar, salt etc.
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posted on
07/01/2015 4:11:03 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: SoConPubbie
Those who live in ‘FLY OVER COUNTRY’ have been insulted/denigrated in the worst possible way, as HUMMAN'S and as CITIZEN'S, by the ELITES’.
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posted on
07/01/2015 4:13:43 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: cripplecreek
I’ve had the thought several times that the SCOTUS should meet not in DC, but somewhere more, shall we say, down to earth.
I would nominate Franklin CO, VA. but they may come to enjoy the local “spirits” too much.
Somewhere more remote, but not in a state with legal wildwood weed.
The middle of the Mojave desert?
A mountain top in very rural New Mexico?
A small kansas town with only a convenience store and grain storage facilities?
Let them learn what fly over country looks like, up close and personal.
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posted on
07/01/2015 4:38:45 PM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(TED CRUZ, so "government for the people, by the people and of the people shall not perish")
To: SoConPubbie
I am a “Cruz or Lose guy.” But — his statement is stupid. The job of the SCOTUS is not to respect people or parochial views, but to respect the Constitution regardless of who it might offend.
To: SoConPubbie
So which condescending pos asked the loaded question, “it was asked?” By whom, Ian?
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posted on
07/01/2015 5:00:20 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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